Follow your Hero

 Today I woke up at 1 AM, and I was trying to figure out why I was awake during this time, but I never get up at this time, so I got onto my Gran Turismo game, and ran a tuning lobby, a friend that I had not seen in a while, joined my lobby.  I offered him help if he needed it, and it was the first time that he did. And we talked for at least an hour and a half. And it was really neat to get to know him on a personal level not just on a gaming level. I then left for the pool at 7 AM,  I talk to some really good friends in the pool, and it was really neat to see how they are improving. It was the first time I’ve ever seen them walk the entire length of the pool by themselves. I am so proud of them. They also gave me really good advice about things that I was contemplating for the day While I was at the pool, a friend of mine called and invited me to lunch, so I drove home and on the way home I got inspired to buy a breakfast burrito, and in my mind I’m thinking why I’m goi...

 Today I went to the pool this morning, cleaned it out for about an hour, and then a friend came in the pool and we talked for just a little bit and then we went to a thrift store and bought everything except for what we went in there for, then afterword, we decided to go bowling, it was great we played three games, The first game we played a normal game, the second game we played a game called low ball. The goal of this one is to get the lowest score possible but you have to hit a pin every time and if you don’t you either get a strike if it’s your first ball and it goes in the gutter., or on your second ball, if you don’t hit one of the pins that are up, it is considered a spare, the best possible score in this game or lowest score is 22. It’s a pretty fun game, after that, we went back and played a normal game again.after that we went our separate ways while I was driving home. I remembered I was talking to somebody in Church yesterday and they mentioned that one of the people t...

I find it kind of funny that people know when I’m awake, and I say this, because,, I have a dear brother, who used to struggle to wake up in the morning, and I have told him about when I wake up and stay awake. And he now knows that during these hours I don’t mind helping people… I say call me if you need help, While other people …would say I dont want to be bothered…. And they turn on their silence.   I am awake waiting to help. Call me….. He did a favor for me last week, and he was checking up to see how it went. I am so grateful for his love, about letting me know that he is concerned,  as I was texting him back, I said some thing, that made me think about what I was saying ,,what I was typing.  And as I was talking to him, I wrote the poetry called- I DID. After I got done texting him in the morning, like five minutes later, another dear brother texted me, Told me about Free wood that I can hopefully turn into something beautiful,  As I was leaving the pool ...

   I want to try an experiment on a scripture today…. Mosiah 2:17 As I go throughout the day and I have an experience or an understanding, I’m gonna write it down and hopefully we’ll see where this day goes.. This morning, as I was heading out the door,  I’ve been praying, That I can see or help or do something for other people today rather than what I want to do I got to the pool this morning, And I felt inspired to take two of my drinks with me, When I showed up, there was one person in the pool and we talked a little bit, but he did his thing, and away he went After he left, I turned on my music . He doesn’t like music so I am respectful to him , Then I wait till he’s gone before I turn on the music While I was doing my work out, I got a text message from a dear friend saying that I missed out on the activities last night, but then he said there is a meeting today, a gathering of single adults for breakfast, and a few helpful meetings to help your life be better So I s...

I would encourage you to begin having a personal spiritual preparation every morning on first arising. This consists of reading the scriptures and praying as you read. Remember, when you pray you are talking to Heavenly Father and when you are reading the Scriptures,  Heavenly Father is talking to you. In order to enhance communication with the Lord,  learn to pray using the scriptures Anonymous  .

  I DID as much as I Knew was necessary Knowing he could do it on his own With Me as his guide to get him through life Having complete faith  he is going to make it !  without Me doing everything for him. letting him learn on his own…. All the ups and downs All the while… growing strengthening improving and changing for the better…. Ever preparing….. But not knowing why….. ……. I look so forward… Until we meet again In a loving embrace….. That will last through eternity…. This is what I pictured God saying… about me……. About all of us Please read it again and picture God saying this about you. ……….. I (GOD) DID as much as I Knew was necessary Knowing you could do it on your own With Me (GOD) as your guide to get you through life Having complete Faith. You are going to make it !!!!  without Me (GOD) doing everything for you. letting you learn on your own…. All the ups…… and downs….. All the while… growing…… strengthening…… improving….. and changing for the better…. Eve...

 I had a really amazing experience two days ago. The reason I didn’t write yesterday is because I was running all over the place… excited telling everybody of my date of my baptism., I was so exhausted, so spiritually high.  I fell asleep at 4 PM. And I usually fall asleep around 11pm..  I just couldn’t do anything anymore.  I was so overwhelmed…. I would like to Tell about all my thoughts this morning. What I really loved after experiencing the Snowy 7th….…of May and then writing about it, immediately after it happened.  I got to go back and re-read the experience two or three times. that made it,  all the more special for me, I almost went through a whole box of tissues. Even though I just experienced it that day, I reread it over and over and over, trying to learn what God was telling me,  At first, I thought He was telling me all the things that I needed to improve I thought He was putting me down,  saying you have to do better at these things...

 Today I woke up at my early time as usual And I prepared this morning as I usually do with music and prayer Then I left for aerobics got there at 6:30, And I stayed for little over 30 minutes, I had a really strong impression to go to the live BYU devotional, by Grant J. Jensen : Choosing God’s best blessings:family. So I got out of the pool and I went, At 7 AM in the morning. It was snowing really hard, which is kind of weird because it’s May 7,   It was snowing and while I was driving, I was praying that I could be more like the snow that I could be more clean and pure, And as everybody else was seeing it as a hassle, how cold it is, How Miserable It seems to be  and the snow is ruining everything…..I was loving it!! to be snowing. I was truly enjoying it. And then I was praying about my baptism, Which I hope is soon,  I got approved to be baptized,  Almost 2 weeks ago, I’m so looking forward to the date,  And I was praying through the snow that I could ...

 This morning I woke up at my usual time, really early, and I made a commitment to myself, that if my body was able with all my injuries, that if my body was able.   I was never going to sign up on the chair set up list again for church  I told myself, if my body is able,  I am going to go there every Sunday morning And I’m going to help out. I truly believe that Jesus Christ would arrive early,  He wouldn’t sign up He would just show up because He knew it would help and benefit others He didn’t do His work to gain recognition He didn’t do any of His work for Himself Jesus Christ came upon this earth to show us the perfect example.  His will was to do His fathers will.  How many of us can say that?  How many of us can say,, I’m living my day,  today for God?    If we could think like Jesus Christ,  if we could act like Jesus Christ,  if we could love like Jesus Christ,   if we could be an example, like Jesus...

 I actually have a lot of deep thoughts today  I’ve been thinking about the mighty change,  to me I don’t see much change at all in myself I feel like something is holding me back,  I keep expecting something grand or something amazing to wake me up,  to help me become the best  potential that I am, or that God knows that I can be, so what am I waiting for?   I don’t know !   I feel like I have so much potential to accomplish so many things,  yet I don’t feel the strong desire or the passion, the courage, the overwhelming love that I think I’m looking for. So this desire that I am looking for,,,,,this passion, this overwhelming desire to serve,  to be better, to understand,  how do I understand and see the mighty change in myself,   recognize God’s hand in my life and then go,  how do I give up everything,   how do I put off the world,  Truly give up the world and serve.  How do I see the mighty change ...

 Your past is like a scab……for example,  the more you pick at it the longer it takes to heal. Just like our past the more we think about it  and dwell in the past the harder it is to forgive and move on. But once we stop picking at our past And look to where we are and live in the now. God will heal us, in His time…… ::David:: 5–6-24 .

 Christmas is the time for joy Right when you see your first toy Christmas is the Time for love From our Savior, who is above Our Savior was born on this day As He laid in a stable,  filled with hay Mary was a part of his birth She was his mother  while he lived on earth before Christ died He promised all of us,That He would be by our side. ::David:: 5-6-24 .

 These are not my own. I heard these from other people………. The word = FAIL F….first A…attempt  I…..in L….learning  When we FAIL at something, don’t think that’s a bad thing, it’s a wonderful thing !!!  learn from it… Make that be the first attempt at that thing…..that you FAILED at….then learn from it and don’t do it again. Next word HUGS H……..Helping U……..us G…….grow S…….spirituality  By wrapping our arms around each other, we are showing that we are family and that we care for each other, we need each other……we need to support each other…..we need to lift each other up…..  .

 As I am pondering about my body, my pains, my injuries, my scars, my disabilities, and the things that I have wrong with me, that I have always thought were wrong with me. I can envision myself laying down…. And having this dream……. I’m driving down the road and I see a car ahead of me and it’s flipped over,  and I am the first person on scene,   and as i pull over to see if anybody needs help,  huge dread comes over my heart,  I see that it is my family,  who I have not seen in over a year,  and with the disabilities that I have,  with all my heart, I want to help them,  but because I am weak,  I am unable to….. …  so I call the police, and as I’m on the phone,  my heart is just torn, because I want to help them so bad…  But because I have allowed my body to get this weak,  I am unable to help.   It seems like hours go by……. as I am just waiting for the emergency vehicles to get here  to help my famil...

  In the Scriptures it talks about how we are the dust of the earth, what does this mean? from me pondering about  many things today…… this is what I take out of it. All my life I have always tried to do it my way, or by following some example of somebody and it was always the worldview,  always what I saw in others, and they looked so happy and they were having so much fun I thought they were happy and so I followed them, and I realize now that because, I always tried to do it on my own, and follow others who were just wandering around also …I was always going to remain in the dirt. I was never going to become what I could become, And the reason I was never able to become my greatest potential is because…….   I didn’t make me…….. I didn’t give life to me……..  I didn’t give my parents to me…….. I didn’t do anything, other than just appear one day having a consciousness of my own So basically, if we look at the scriptures,  God had all the dust of the E...

As we go through life, there are many things that we experience,  I would like to focus on the things that drive us crazy for example. Have you ever met somebody and they do something that just irks you wrong, that just makes you think “why are they doing that?  it’s dumb?  It’s annoying!  it’s driving me crazy!” And they keep doing it over and over, and it just eats you up and that’s all you can think about….. Then when we go over to them or try to say “you know that’s really annoying ! or I noticed you’re struggling with this issue!     9 times out of 10.       We hurt their feelings and then there is a bad relationship there.  How can we look at others? Notice their bad habits and then do something about it, without hurting them, or hurting us,  if we can analyze their bad habits and try to picture a better way to live, then by showing them and others how to live, how to act better, and maybe just maybe, they will see the way you...

 At least once in everybody’s life, we will need to learn how to plant a seed. I’m going to explain how to grow a beautiful, long, living tree. First of all, you need a seed, not just any seed, but a seed that you know will survive through all the storms, struggles, and wind. As soon as you find that special seed, you can start to learn how to plant it. First, you need to dig a hole in order to plant the seed. Second, you’ll put the seed directly into the hole, Now you need to fill the hole with lots of dirt, so that when the time comes, the tree may develop strong roots, so that it may have plenty of support through all the struggles it will have. Third, you will need to water the tree, you must never forget to water the tree, otherwise, your tree will soon begin to wither away, and nobody wants to have their beautiful tree wither away! So don’t forget. Fourth, you will need to get rid of all the weeds daily so that they won’t corrupt your beautiful tree. Fifth, you’ll need more l...

I have a dear brother who was in my life, who I was always with,  I always did things with him and I now see how,  he looked up to me in every way,  he copied me,  he’d love to do the things that I did,  even though it was hard for him,  yet he was striving to be the best that he could be,  yet he would always copy the things I would say,  he would always try to do as I was doing. And as  I began to slip away,  I began to show him the wrong example,  and he followed,  he began to get stuck in all the stuff  that I allowed in my life. But he did something…. that showed me an example,  of who He is to me…. of how my Brother  made the Hard decision  to be my perfect Example of Jesus Christ. Even though I think,…… I was his hero in someway…. in the beginning….. I made a horrible mistake,  some thing that is going to hurt somebody forever. And my dear brother,  even though I know,  he wrestled in, ...

 Let’s say you’ve had a rough day at work and you have a lot of worries on your mind and at the end of your job as you’re walking to your car which is parked four blocks away, you get about a block away from your car when you notice that there has been a horrible car accident.  There are all kinds of ambulances and firetrucks and police everywhere and as you approach the accident, you notice that is your neighbor who is part of the accident..  the cops let you go in and comfort your neighbor, and you find out that his wife and two daughters died in the car accident and he has also come out of it with a broken leg.  He is so sad and worried about what he’s going to do with the rest of his life and what he’s going to do without his family.  After he goes to the hospital the doctors and the police hand him over to your hands to watch over him as he arrives home.   as you kneel down to say your prayers later that night, you pray that your neighbors, pain sorrow...

 There is only one THING.  Being lazy is good for…..  NOTHING.   It’s always more enjoyable to do something rather than doing nothing. How many key's you carry is how many worries you have. Without hard work talent is wasted. Our life is a gift from God, What we do with this life is our gift to God! The more you cry, the more of a man you really are. If you think a camera is watching you everyday, every second, every year…. I bet you wouldn’t be doing Half the things you are doing in your life. The highest form of ignorance is to reject something you know nothing about. .

When the time comes will you be ready Will you be working hard, preparing, trusting  Looking forward for the day When He comes to lead us away To take us to a better place Filled with love, hope and grace I hope we all make it…… To that wonderful place. ::David:: 6-12-96

  This picture means so much to me,  this picture has several meanings to me. 1st…….. I see our Savior, pleading for everyone of us, and hopefully, that is me comforting Him, while He was on the Earth, while He was faithfully doing His Heavenly Father’s will, hopefully I was that Angel, comforting Him. 2nd……….I have been that person begging for help, pleading for help, and it seemed to me that nobody was there, because I was trying to do it always on my own, BUT soon as I turned my life over to God,….soon as I realized that I can’t do it, on my own anymore….. soon as I realized……that I am a Child of God……. soon as I realized that I was so sick of being weak…… being miserable……not truly being happy…… I was at my weakest……..my lowest that I ALLOWED myself to get to…….. soon as I realized where I was………and what I have done to myself…….  that truly humbled me ……. that brought me back to my, our Heavenly Father!!!!! I wish some days that I had not ever gotten so low and that I...